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Bookmark or Share- Upper-atmospheric lightning - WikipediaUpper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and storm clouds.
- Sprite (lightning) - WikipediaSprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
- Jupiter's lightning is strikingly similar to Earth's | SpaceLightning crackles to life and evolves on Jupiter the same way as it does on Earth, a new study finds. Jovian lightning, which occurs as frequently as the phenomenon does on Earth, was first...
- Mysterious Blue Jet Lightning Seen From Space | SmithsonianArtist's rendering of blue jet lightning blasting from a storm cloud towards space. The International Space Station solar panels can be seen in the foreground.
- Sprites, Camera, Action! - NASA Earth ObservatoryAn astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured a red sprite, an atmospheric phenomenon associated with lightning, in a sequence of photos taken over North America. Storm clouds obscure the nighttime city lights of the U.S. Midwest and South.
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